Sheriff searches home in Colorado 'balloon boy' saga

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Sheriff's deputies are searching the home of a couple caught up in the Colorado balloon saga.

Larimer
County officials showed up at the Fort Collins home of Richard and
Mayumi Heene with a warrant around 10 p.m. MDT and at least three of
them began a search. Sgt. Ian Stewart declined to say what they were
after.

Hours earlier, the sheriff announced that he was pursuing
criminal charges in the case, but didn't say who would be charged or
what the charges would be.

The saga began this week when their
6-year-old son vanished into the rafters of his garage while the world
thought he was zooming through the sky in a flying saucer-like helium
balloon.

The sheriff has since been looking into speculation that the incident was a hoax.